Lent is 2 1/2 weeks old. I am reading Thomas Merton's "The Other Side of the Mountain." I went to our parish mission Thursday night. Fr. Louie is speaking about the Eucharist. I have been through many lents in my days. Many were looked at with complaining eyes of a young boy worried about having to give something up. My eyes are much older and I see many things differently, but I have to admit, with the help of Thomas Merton and Louie Richard, this is the best lent I have ever experienced...and experience is the correct word. Lent is not something to live through, it is something to experience. Early morning masses. Evening missions. Late night readings and prayers...
"A pilgrimage is a journey with a story."
A journey is a quest.
A quest is search.
A search is mission.
A mission is my pilgrimage, my journey, my quest and my search.
Peace, love and happiness to all.
God Bless, US.
Thoughts on being Catholic...and Irish...and Southern. I have a guilty conscience and I like my potatoes boiled with crawfish..."why be anything else?"
Recent Readings
- A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
- A New England Tale
- Absalom! Absalom!
- Columbia History of Am. Novel
- I'll Take My Stand (12 Southerners)
- Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
- MLA Style Manual
- Poor White (Sherwood Anderson)
- Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
- The American Novel
- The Fugitive Legacy
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The Hamlet (Faulkner)
- The House of Percy
- The Minister's Wooing (Stowe)
- The Mississippi Delta & the World
- The Second Coming
- The Southern Agrarians
- Winding Through Time
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